Written by

A 22-year-old Oshkosh man made his initial court appearance Tuesday and was charged with stabbing a Sheboygan man in the back with a kitchen knife and killing him Saturday afternoon during a fight outside an apartment building on Sheboygan's south side.

According to a criminal complaint filed Tuesday in Sheboygan County Circuit Court, Michael J. Lemerande told police he initially grabbed the knife to scare away another man who'd gotten into a fight with his friend.

But as he approached the scuffle, which he said eventually involved two men beating his friend, he "lost it" and plunged the ...